Rehabilitation and Return to Work Consultant

at  Queensland Health

We are Metro South Health
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane’s south side, Logan, Redlands and the Scenic Rim. We operate five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty and state-wide healthcare services. We are renowned for teaching and research excellence.
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We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation and family responsibilities to apply.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.
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Join us at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
The purpose of the role is to provide comprehensive work related and non-work-related injury and illness management for Princess Alexandra Hospital, Metro South Health staff.
As the Rehabilitation and Return to Work Consultant, you will be responsible for developing tailored strategies to improve safe and sustainable return to work outcomes and reduce workplace injury, claims costs and durations.

In this role, you will also provide advice and support to workers, senior management, and team leaders, as well as monitor trends and influence external stakeholders to minimise the impact of injury/illness and assist the prompt, safe and sustainable return to work.

• Provide comprehensive and expert injury management education and consultancy services to workers, divisional management, and executives, providing quality and cost-effective injury management solutions to facilitate safe and sustainable outcomes for workers participating in return-to-work programs.
• Deliver and implement divisional injury management initiatives by collaborating with all managers and leaders through:
• providing expert advice and recommending solutions on injury prevention and management issues and systems.
• providing advice on Division or Department wide injury prevention and management strategies and initiatives to ensure consistent implementation and drive continued improvement.
• Consult with injured or ill workers, medical and allied health practitioners, and other relevant stakeholders to drive early intervention measures in managing complex cases from end to end, monitoring progress and adjusting return to work plans as required to minimise the impact of injury and achieve claim goals.
• Engage with medical and allied health practitioners to plan and coordinate early, safe, and sustainable return to work plans or reasonable adjustment requirements for injured/ill workers, coordinating injury management in accordance with Metro South Health policies, Work Health Safety’s Injury Management procedures, regulations and Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.
Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
You can find out more about why it’s so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License

• Provide comprehensive and expert injury management education and consultancy services to workers, divisional management, and executives, providing quality and cost-effective injury management solutions to facilitate safe and sustainable outcomes for workers participating in return-to-work programs.
• Deliver and implement divisional injury management initiatives by collaborating with all managers and leaders through:
• providing expert advice and recommending solutions on injury prevention and management issues and systems.
• providing advice on Division or Department wide injury prevention and management strategies and initiatives to ensure consistent implementation and drive continued improvement.
• Consult with injured or ill workers, medical and allied health practitioners, and other relevant stakeholders to drive early intervention measures in managing complex cases from end to end, monitoring progress and adjusting return to work plans as required to minimise the impact of injury and achieve claim goals.
• Engage with medical and allied health practitioners to plan and coordinate early, safe, and sustainable return to work plans or reasonable adjustment requirements for injured/ill workers, coordinating injury management in accordance with Metro South Health policies, Work Health Safety’s Injury Management procedures, regulations and Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003